I also love real estate and decorating.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.